Ashanti Jones (she/her) is a dedicated policy analyst and equity strategist with a passionate commitment to ensuring that no children are imprisoned or entangled in carceral systems. Jones is a policy analyst in the Criminal Justice Reform Program at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. Apart from her most important role as a mother, Jones is also a social worker, speaker, and policy analyst with a specialty in juvenile justice, restorative and transformative justice, and equity practices.